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Mis du Bois holds the only Radcliffe chair in the University and is the only female tenured faculty member at Harvard. She has held the professorship since 1954.
Cora du Bois, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology, will retire this June.
Miss du Bois is a social anthropologist. Perhaps her most famous book is The People of Alor, a social-psychological study of an East Indian island. She has done field work in India and gives a graduate seminar in "Problems of Socio-Cultural Change."
The Zemurray chair was given to Radcliffe in 1948 with the stipulation that it be filled only by a distinguished woman scholar in any academic field. Helen Maud Cam, professor of English Constitutional History, held the position before Miss du Bois.
Miss du Bois' successor has not as yet been chosen, Mary I. Bunting said yesterday that a committee was formed last spring to choose a qualified woman to fill the chair and that at least 30 names have been suggested--soem from abroad, some relatively young, and some distinguished older...